Four Points Bulletin

Travels north, east, south, and west of our Oceanside home base.

The Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association’s mission statement is to preserve history through physical legacy, historical context, cultural landscape and experience of rail transportation. The Campo rail station dates back to 1916, a stop along the San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway line. In order to connect Arizona to San Diego, the tracks had to …

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The museum name is a mouthful, but very descriptive. The Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum is a nonprofit organization dedicated to displaying and giving tribute to skillful work created by underrated craftsmen (and craftswomen). These craftspeople are artisans who have built something intriguing on a small scale. The museum opened in 2011, and since has grown …

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Indian monk and guru Paramahansa Yogananda founded the self-realization fellowship in Los Angeles in 1920. Through the fellowship he introduced millions of people to meditation and kriya yoga. He taught that the universe is “God’s cosmic motion picture”. The Encinitas retreat and gardens was opened almost two decades later, in 1937. The gardens, which are …

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